Affiliation:
1. Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada.
Abstract
The size of pollination neighbourhoods has important consequences for mating patterns, seed production, gene flow, and patterns of genetic variation across populations. We examined the size of the pollination neighbourhood in a stand of a wind-pollinated clonal plant (Typha latifolia L.; broadleaf cattail) by evaluating spatial patterns of pollen production and seed set by individual shoots. We then simulated spatial patterns of pollen availability to investigate the shape of the pollen dispersal curve. We detected significant positive spatial autocorrelations in seed set over distances up to 5 m. This spatial variation in patterns of seed set appeared to be driven by the local availability of pollen: we found significant cross-correlations between pollen production and seed set over distances of approximately 2 m. The simulations supported this inference; simulated pollen dispersal curves fit observed patterns of seed set when ∼99% of pollen was assumed to disperse over distances less than 2 m. Together, these results indicate that the majority of pollination events occur within very close proximity of pollen sources in T. latifolia. Although within-shoot selfing has long been assumed to be a major pollination mode in T. latifolia, our data indicate that pollination events in the stand were more likely to have involved between-shoot pollination.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Plant Science,Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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